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Excerpt from The New York Medical Journal, Vol. 8: October, 1868-March, 1869 These points were urged in consultation, but some great fears of Caesa rean section being expressed, I proposed to try and demonstrate whether any thing could at all readily be accomplished by instrumental means. I first tried faithfully to apply a pair of delicately-made Hodge's obstetric forceps to the head, but it was a failure, there being no adequate room for the introduction and adaptation of the second blade. I then tried faith fully, during half an hour, to reduce the head piecemeal with Meigs's craniotomy forceps, but there was so little room in the vagina and cervix for both the hand and instrument, that the progress was lamentably slow. To my mind the proposition was clear that many hours would be required for piecemeal delivery, that an anaesthetic would be absolutely necessary, and that the result of prolonged manipulation would be fearful. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.